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Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Living, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Time & Brevity, Nature
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Biography
The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. The major themes are there in Shelley’s dramatic if short life and in his works, enigmatic, inspiring, and lasting: the restlessness and brooding, the rebellion against authority, the interchange with nature, the power of the visionary imagination and of poetry, the pursuit of ideal love, and the untamed . . .
Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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SUBJECT Living, Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Time & Brevity, Nature
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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